Accurate Quote by Trevanian

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

— Agatha Christie

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

— William Blake

“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities…

— C.S. Lewis

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

— Henrik Ibsen

I just don't believe in generalisations.

— Julian Fellowes

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I tend to be such a generalist.

— Kemi Badenoch

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

— Steven Brust

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

— Roger Ebert